Four US Michelin Plants Awarded for Workplace Safety

Four of Michelin’s US plants were recognised for excellence in worker health and safety at the Rubber Manufacturers Association’s (RMA) annual meeting, held April 13. Michelin’s US6/CPV facility in Greenville, South Carolina, received an Excellence award. Three Michelin plants – in Anderson and Spartanburg, South Carolina and Dothan, Alabama, received Improvement awards.

“Michelin takes great care to provide employees with a safe work environment,” said Dan Merchant, director of asset protection and safety. “It’s nice to have the industry recognise our safety results, which we have been able to achieve thanks to the measures put in place and the hard work of each of our manufacturing employees.”

Since 1981, the RMA’s Safety and Health Improvement Program (SHIP) has acknowledged member companies that achieve significant enhancements in worker health and safety. The SHIP awards encourage and reward a company’s demonstrated commitment to worker health and safety.

Two categories of awards are presented to companies that demonstrate workplace safety improvements, which are measured by the incidence rate for lost and restricted workday cases. The “Excellence” category is for facilities that achieve an incidence rate that is 75 per cent better than the average achieved by plants that provide data to the RMA.

“This industry takes pride in its efforts to promote worker safety,” said Charlie Cannon, RMA president and CEO. “The SHIP award program recognises RMA member companies’ superior achievement to protect workers.”

The “Improvement” award is for plants that achieve an incidence rate that is both 10 per cent better than its rate in the previous year and the same or better than the RMA average incidence rate.

One hundred and thirty-six plants from 36 RMA member companies supplied data for the annual survey to determine the extent of workplace safety improvements. The data supplied to RMA is identical to information provided to the US federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, which publishes injury and illness information on all industries.